• Google and accounting…

    December 14, 2007

    Business, Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    With a hat tip to a clean shaven Mike, this post over on RWW surmises that an online accounting system might be in the pipline from Google. The rationale for the idea of Google entering this space is pretty…

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  • So which on-demand office suite will win?

    December 13, 2007

    Business, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    I’m a firm believer in the ascendency of on-demand office productivity suites. Offerings from Google, Microsoft, Zoho and others are making the space kind of busy. I have to say that Zoho seems to be the pick of the…

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  • Google/apnfinda mash up

    December 13, 2007

    Business, IT, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    Google has linked with apnfinda to create a director 2.0 service for New Zealand. Early days yet but it appears the servce will have the following functionality; directory listing for businesses view directory entries along with full mapping functionality…

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  • Large scale SaaS implementation test case…

    December 13, 2007

    Business, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Strategy
     

    The unreasonablemen had this post looking at a case study of a 1000 seat Salesforce implementation here in New Zealand. One of the most interesting comments was this one; …companies going through the process of buying CRM spend so…

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  • Business partners….

    December 12, 2007

    Business, My businesses, New business
     

    A great post here from Will Schroter about choosing business partners. I’m involved in several different businesses with different partners, all of whom bring different strengths and weaknesses to the mix. I’ve seen many business partnerships crumble in the…

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  • It’s not all stock options…

    December 12, 2007

    Business, Design, Efficiency, Strategy
     

    When talking about employment within a hi tech company, people tend to focus on how great things are. Exciting work, good pay, stock options etc etc. An ebay listing by a somewhat disgruntled Salesforce employee would tend to suggest…

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  • iPod VoIP phone….

    December 11, 2007

    Design, IT
     

    With a hat tip to Zoli for the tip, news that someone has created a hardware/software solution to creating a VoIP enabled phone out of the iPod touch. Who needs AT&T (and how p&^%&%ed off are they right now?!)

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  • Is it about game changing or execution?

    December 11, 2007

    Business, Design, New business, Strategy
     

    Watching my favourite youtube clip of the month, and some recent conversations I’ve had with regards idea pitching, led me to ask the following simple question; Is the great idea most important, or the ability to execute? I’ve always…

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  • Online MS Office launched…

    December 11, 2007

    Design, IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    Sort of… Office Live Workspace is in beta release now. Unlike Google apps it isn’t a truly online collaboration package, more a service to allow central storage and document sharing between users. It seems they’ve gone down to distinct…

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  • Is usability important?

    December 10, 2007

    Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    Well of course it bleeding well is, which is why I was incredulous to even see that Michael Krigsman suggests that enterprise software doesn’t need to be “sexy” (and the term is misleading and ambiguous) the original post by…

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